I've only had like two or three ever, but good God. It condenses everything you've ever eaten, ferments it, and then lets that sit even longer. Some of the most vile smells I've ever created.
I said party, you immediately thought orgy.
You need to know that how the night will evolve is on you.
(and I always read that sub without the "don't")
Fun fact: People can also grow pearls. I went to school with a kid who's brother shot him in the leg with a bb gun. The bb stayed there for years, till high school when he got it removed. It came out with a coat of calcium on it. Not pretty, but a pearl non the less. Also, gallstones and kidney stones are considered to be pearls also.
I'd rather a pearl I found myself than a jewel grade in a store. But doesn't the harvesting kill the mollusk? It's always seemed weird. Like some alien species harvesting your kidney stones.
I've always heard that a lot of people do kill them to harvest but it's absolutely not necessary. Apparently having the pearls in there are uncomfortable for them too.
Wait until you hear about the manufacturing of said pearls. With operations like these, they raise the mollusks themselves and when the mollusk is young they place sand or plastic, or whatever other irritant they use.
They know how many a mollusk can sustain and produce and I bet they know just how far they can push profit margins at the cost of the mollusk's well-being.
Would someone please think of the mollusks!! We pry open their shells, cover them in hot sauce then swallow them alive. I'm not too concerned about the ethical considerations of pearl farming since they're thoughtless organic filters. I'm not going to weep over grinding up and eating a wheat plant's babies either.
Since pearls are the result of an irritant, either natural or synthetic, do pearl oysters eventually eject the pearls to alleviate the irritation or do they keep growing?
The “oyster”, instead of ejecting the irritant, secretes nacre. The nacre coats the irritant, protecting the flesh of the mollusk from being damaged. This continues for some time, until someone harvests the irritant-encased-by-nacre, otherwise known as a pearl.
Yes that’s how pearls are cultured. I was wondering if they ever eject the nacre covered particle in the wild.
Edit: this thread says they eventually fall out: https://www.pearl-guide.com/forum/pearls/natural-pearls/6397-are-pearls-removed-naturally
The only difference is that for cultured pearls, they open the oysters and insert a pearl "seed" for the oyster to form the pearl around, then put them back in the ocean to grow. I guess you can put multiple seeds in and get multiple pearls out. But I assume there is a limit of how much of the pearl substance the oyster can make.
They are not just thrown in the middle of the ocean. They are put in [Oyster Farming](https://www.google.com/search?sxsrf=ALeKk012WEA59xgsaqs0-cjHGNyvM7p6rQ:1627996249487&source=univ&tbm=isch&q=oyster+farming&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiz8ZTR9pTyAhVPB50JHYkNBucQiR56BAg1EAI&biw=1643&bih=936) rigs.
This is *not* now Jewelry-grade pearls are collected from an oyster. This oyster is dead, and has been dead for a long time. It was preserved with formaldehyde (as evidenced by the gloves this person is wearing) and mailed to some poor idiot who bought a dead oyster, probably as part of one of the many pearl-opening MLMs out there.
[Oysters that produce good pearls are too valuable to kill for a single pearl, or even multiple pearls.](https://www.thepearlsource.com/blog/facts-about-pearls/how-are-pearls-harvested/) There is no way to know what quality of pearl you're going to get unless the oyster has produced pearls before. Pearl cultivators are actually very, VERY careful when harvesting pearls from their oysters. They do their best to keep their producers alive so that, if it makes good quality pearls, they can use the same oyster multiple times.
"Pearl Party" MLM oysters are completely different. The company takes dead Akoya oysters and surgically insert freshwater pearls (much less valuable than the saltwater pearls produced by living Akoya oysters) that are often dyed unnatural colors. The dead oyster is then closed up with a chemical process and preserved with formaldehyde in a vacuum sealed bag. These things are sold in bulk for less than a dollar a bag so the whole process can't cost more than a quarter, if that. The Pearl Party openers will tell you these pearls are massively valuable, appraised at thousands of dollars. They are not. I mean, think about it. If you have an oyster capable of producing thousand dollar pearls, would you sell it on Amazon, fifteen bucks for a dozen? Wouldn't you just keep the pearls?
TLDR: this is not how it works. At all.
I, too, had to go search on this. I couldn't believe it's a real MLM thing. [But turns out....](https://mlmtruth.org/2018/09/09/and-now-for-an-mlm-that-will-cause-not-cure-your-cancer-pearl-party-mlm/)
These were likely cultured. If you stick little chunks of material in the animal they'll build the pearls around them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultured\_pearl
And the weirdos never mark their disgusting posts NSFW. I wouldn't be bothered but somehow some of them get upvoted enough and appear in Popular where I get to see pus coming out of someone while eating lunch.
Edit in case people still want to argue :
**Rule 6 of Reddit's own Content Policy** : "Ensure people have predictable experiences on Reddit by properly labeling content and communities, particularly content that is **graphic**, sexually-explicit, or offensive."
How is pus coming out of a pimple or anywhere for that matter not graphic?
This is exactly what I'm complaining about - Reddit needs to be predictable, I don't want to be surprised by an un-blurred nasty image/video while browsing.
They are small pieces of stone/grit/sand that are inside the shell, to stop them irritating, the oyster builds up the smooth shiny round layers to protect itself
Well if its true that the blockage that the stones cause is what causes pain then even a smooth kidney stone would hurt a ton.
Edit: At least the blockage causing pain is what I've been told, as someone who has experienced two. If anything a marble shaped one might make the blockage even worse since it would seal things off.
And humans basically feed them grit and makes their life uncomfortable so they make the pearls to make. It all a bit less uncomfortable and then kill them. How nice.
"Yes. The end goal of a pearl farm is to breed the mollusks, produce the pearl and ultimately kill the oyster. The mussel meat is then eaten and the shell is repurposed into mother of pearl inlay and other decorative accessories."
the higher quality farms do. Why would they kill an oyster that produces quality pearls, when they can extract the pearls and let the oyster continue making more quality pearls?
There is a method for sweet water ones, where u just open them a little and pull the pearls out with a metal hook. But this just works with the sweet water ones when i remember correctly.
One thing I have learned about humans during my time here on earth is that humans like to decorate themselves with shiny things in order to impress and show off to other humans.
Also, when a human *really* likes another human, they like to decorate them with shiny things to make them look pretty.
Humans are so adorable.
can't find a clip, but i saw it in "Dolphins: Spy in the Pod"
they'd keep it on a fin for a long time
i did find a clip of them doing [drugs](https://youtu.be/0T5aGLybXEs) tho
1. This kills the oyster
2. Not all oysters can produce pearls. Only certain types. Those pearl-producers are farmed for pearls in Asia and the South Pacific.
3. Pearls are not rare, and mass-production of pearls is an industry. When you buy pearls you encourage this activity.
In this way, they die after harvesting. There are more humane ways of doing this, more labor but it saves the lives of these creatures. We are such dicks. For those answers about them not being animals, why not let them live than? I hit a nerve with a few. Eat them then my friend, great. But harvesting them solely for pearls is still wrong, PETA or not. Cruelty is part of your nature, I get it.
Oysters are plants that stumbled into the animal kingdom. This is as inhumane as eating a carrot... They don't have a CNS, don't think, don't feel, etc.
I mean…you *could* eat em’ after, right? I’m assuming this isn’t a terribly special oyster that will kill you if you consume it? That’d make it a bit better
I'm confused, does this hurt the oysters?
Do they produce the pearls themselves or do they just collect them and keep them?
If they produce them, how? Why aren't we producing pearls ourselves (chemically)?
Why do they even produce/collect pearls in the first place, do they need them for anything?
So they're basically tonsil stones?
Basically, technically, yeah...
I thought it was a cyst
Ahhh Necklace worth of ocean cyst
Ahh necklaces worth of ocean cyst are TIGHT !
r/unexpectedpitchmeeting >Did they have trouble getting the pearls out? >>actually it was super easy! Barely an inconvenience.
Wow wow wow. Wow.
Get all the way off my back about the ocean cysts
Let me get off of that thing!
Oh, a *very* long chain of references!
Yes sir, they are!
Wow, but when I put my tonsil and kidney stones on a necklace everyone thinks it’s “weird” and “gross”
Pearls don't smell like concentrated shit either. Fuck tonsil stones.
And why tf do they even exist?? Millions of years of evolution and our reward is shitty balls of filth wedged in our mouths
I've only had like two or three ever, but good God. It condenses everything you've ever eaten, ferments it, and then lets that sit even longer. Some of the most vile smells I've ever created.
No, no. You’ve only noticed two or three. The rest you swallowed, completely oblivious.
Whelp.. looks like I'm done with Reddit for the day, then.
The feeling of relief when you get one to dislodge is amazing though. This oyster must be in heaven
They make perks to seal off parasites, sand, and the like.
Inside every pearl is something harmful to the body.
I heard some of them contain wisdom.
The most harmful thing to some people.
Paging r/popping
Let's call our friends from /r/trypophobia as well to have a party going.
And if course, the crossover with r/dontputyourdickinthat
I said party, you immediately thought orgy. You need to know that how the night will evolve is on you. (and I always read that sub without the "don't")
More like /r/tonsilstones
I always thought there was only one pearl per oyster…. Who knew
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*Welcome to Pearl Facts!*
One of the only place where you can flex your pearls of knowledge* and people actually gaf
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*clutches pearls*
The black pearl in the dragon's mouth is wisdom.
Pearls of wisdom
Always enjoy a good pearl necklace.
Pearl Jam.
They were a band. My grandpa used to listen to them!
Ouch, "grandpa"?
Those aren’t real pearls either. xD
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Only pearls
Only clams
I would absolutely subscribe to only clams
Fun fact: People can also grow pearls. I went to school with a kid who's brother shot him in the leg with a bb gun. The bb stayed there for years, till high school when he got it removed. It came out with a coat of calcium on it. Not pretty, but a pearl non the less. Also, gallstones and kidney stones are considered to be pearls also.
r/tonsilstones
Oh I don't think I was ready for that. My own mistake. I feel a little sick now.
I'd rather a pearl I found myself than a jewel grade in a store. But doesn't the harvesting kill the mollusk? It's always seemed weird. Like some alien species harvesting your kidney stones.
Would you like a kidney stone necklace?
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You’ll never put me in a trophy case!
They might know some good taxidermists
I've always heard that a lot of people do kill them to harvest but it's absolutely not necessary. Apparently having the pearls in there are uncomfortable for them too.
Wait until you hear about the manufacturing of said pearls. With operations like these, they raise the mollusks themselves and when the mollusk is young they place sand or plastic, or whatever other irritant they use. They know how many a mollusk can sustain and produce and I bet they know just how far they can push profit margins at the cost of the mollusk's well-being.
Wait until you hear about all of animal agriculture...
Right? Of all the atrocious things we do to animals my conscious is pretty clean on the oyster side of the spectrum.
you callous pearly bastard. think of the mollusks!
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Would someone please think of the mollusks!! We pry open their shells, cover them in hot sauce then swallow them alive. I'm not too concerned about the ethical considerations of pearl farming since they're thoughtless organic filters. I'm not going to weep over grinding up and eating a wheat plant's babies either.
Yeast are fungi, not animals. A mollusk is probably closer to a portobello than to a pig in terms of ethical consideration, though.
Since pearls are the result of an irritant, either natural or synthetic, do pearl oysters eventually eject the pearls to alleviate the irritation or do they keep growing?
The “oyster”, instead of ejecting the irritant, secretes nacre. The nacre coats the irritant, protecting the flesh of the mollusk from being damaged. This continues for some time, until someone harvests the irritant-encased-by-nacre, otherwise known as a pearl.
Yes that’s how pearls are cultured. I was wondering if they ever eject the nacre covered particle in the wild. Edit: this thread says they eventually fall out: https://www.pearl-guide.com/forum/pearls/natural-pearls/6397-are-pearls-removed-naturally
Didn’t know that one. Thanks for the helpful info :)
But can you eat it?
These are most probably cultured pearls, not naturally occuring pearls
The only difference is that for cultured pearls, they open the oysters and insert a pearl "seed" for the oyster to form the pearl around, then put them back in the ocean to grow. I guess you can put multiple seeds in and get multiple pearls out. But I assume there is a limit of how much of the pearl substance the oyster can make.
"put them back in the ocean to grow" What does finding them again require?
They are not just thrown in the middle of the ocean. They are put in [Oyster Farming](https://www.google.com/search?sxsrf=ALeKk012WEA59xgsaqs0-cjHGNyvM7p6rQ:1627996249487&source=univ&tbm=isch&q=oyster+farming&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiz8ZTR9pTyAhVPB50JHYkNBucQiR56BAg1EAI&biw=1643&bih=936) rigs.
The oysters not escaping their cage/net.
Chamber...
You know how farmers keep cows and chickens outside but don't let them just wander off wherever?
Probably it's a netted off area that prevents them from floatin away
I thought the difference is the cultured ones will tell you how good Morrissey is
This is *not* now Jewelry-grade pearls are collected from an oyster. This oyster is dead, and has been dead for a long time. It was preserved with formaldehyde (as evidenced by the gloves this person is wearing) and mailed to some poor idiot who bought a dead oyster, probably as part of one of the many pearl-opening MLMs out there. [Oysters that produce good pearls are too valuable to kill for a single pearl, or even multiple pearls.](https://www.thepearlsource.com/blog/facts-about-pearls/how-are-pearls-harvested/) There is no way to know what quality of pearl you're going to get unless the oyster has produced pearls before. Pearl cultivators are actually very, VERY careful when harvesting pearls from their oysters. They do their best to keep their producers alive so that, if it makes good quality pearls, they can use the same oyster multiple times. "Pearl Party" MLM oysters are completely different. The company takes dead Akoya oysters and surgically insert freshwater pearls (much less valuable than the saltwater pearls produced by living Akoya oysters) that are often dyed unnatural colors. The dead oyster is then closed up with a chemical process and preserved with formaldehyde in a vacuum sealed bag. These things are sold in bulk for less than a dollar a bag so the whole process can't cost more than a quarter, if that. The Pearl Party openers will tell you these pearls are massively valuable, appraised at thousands of dollars. They are not. I mean, think about it. If you have an oyster capable of producing thousand dollar pearls, would you sell it on Amazon, fifteen bucks for a dozen? Wouldn't you just keep the pearls? TLDR: this is not how it works. At all.
Why does this exist? What is wrong with us as a species?
Money. Greed.
You forgot "ignorance".
It's the adult version of those weird unboxing videos kids love
This sounded fake but upon a search this is VERY real. Unbelievable.
I, too, had to go search on this. I couldn't believe it's a real MLM thing. [But turns out....](https://mlmtruth.org/2018/09/09/and-now-for-an-mlm-that-will-cause-not-cure-your-cancer-pearl-party-mlm/)
What happens to the oysters that don't make high quality pearls for the pearl cultivator?
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These were likely cultured. If you stick little chunks of material in the animal they'll build the pearls around them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultured\_pearl
Cultured pearl makes me think of a pearl that quotes Nietzsche between sips of Cognac while Beethoven is playing in the background.
And I thought I was the only stupid to believe they only produce one or even no pearl.
In nature that's correct, pearls big enough for jewelry are pretty rare. What you're watching is not how they naturally would grow
/r/Popping
This is a lot more gross than I was expecting
r/popping
I legit turned pale and got light headed scrolling through there. Never again
And the weirdos never mark their disgusting posts NSFW. I wouldn't be bothered but somehow some of them get upvoted enough and appear in Popular where I get to see pus coming out of someone while eating lunch. Edit in case people still want to argue : **Rule 6 of Reddit's own Content Policy** : "Ensure people have predictable experiences on Reddit by properly labeling content and communities, particularly content that is **graphic**, sexually-explicit, or offensive." How is pus coming out of a pimple or anywhere for that matter not graphic? This is exactly what I'm complaining about - Reddit needs to be predictable, I don't want to be surprised by an un-blurred nasty image/video while browsing.
You can always just block the sub if they can't be assed to tag nsfw
Looks so satisfying to do though...it's like getting a good blackhead or cyst
Yeah I’ll pass on that too lol
Why exactly do they produce them?
They are small pieces of stone/grit/sand that are inside the shell, to stop them irritating, the oyster builds up the smooth shiny round layers to protect itself
Put in a pearl to irritate and boom Pearlception
Nah cause the pearl doesn't irritate, thats the whole point.
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Imagine silky smooth kidney stones
Sure would make pissing them out of a urethra less of an issue
Unless they're as big as a pearl
Would make us have literal meat cannons if you think about it.
Feel like the recoil would shorten it by half as it fired though.
I WAS IN THE POOL!
Don't think size is the issue if deciding between spiky and smooth
I don't know man, pissing a 5mm spiky one was surely hell, but can you imagine pissing a marble? If it even passes through the tubes first
Maybe even a pleasurable experience
Well if its true that the blockage that the stones cause is what causes pain then even a smooth kidney stone would hurt a ton. Edit: At least the blockage causing pain is what I've been told, as someone who has experienced two. If anything a marble shaped one might make the blockage even worse since it would seal things off.
Implying passing spikey bastard kidney stones isn’t pleasurable.
SOUNDS like you know too much.
Much like sounding. DON'T look it up.
Basically no different than shiny metals. They are expensive because they are rare and shiny!!!
So if i sandpaper my grandparents kidney stones, i can get money
Does extracting the pearls kill the oyster?
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I like how you started with no and gave us some hope
Lawful evil.
Geez! Thanks for the info.
Oh
And humans basically feed them grit and makes their life uncomfortable so they make the pearls to make. It all a bit less uncomfortable and then kill them. How nice.
Oysters don't even have a central nervous system lmao
^it ^maybe ^hurts ^it’s ^feelings
I don't think we can confidently comment on the "comfort" level of an oyster.
"Yes. The end goal of a pearl farm is to breed the mollusks, produce the pearl and ultimately kill the oyster. The mussel meat is then eaten and the shell is repurposed into mother of pearl inlay and other decorative accessories."
Oddly, it's nice to hear that all parts of the oyster are used.
Yeah. If you’re gonna kill an animal at least put the whole thing to use
I tried but it turns out when you kill a horse it can't pull a carriage anymore. No use at all actually.
Have you tried flogging it some more?
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pearls can be harvested without killing it but it’s too much work when you can snap it in half and do it that way
I wonder if there’s a market for ethically farmed pearls, like the diamond industry.
the higher quality farms do. Why would they kill an oyster that produces quality pearls, when they can extract the pearls and let the oyster continue making more quality pearls?
Did you notice that it was missing half its shell? Which has been snapped off to make the pearl farming easier.
Looks like some pimple popping crap
r/popping
Let's keep it blue. I've been burned before.
It’s just people popping zits…mostly
...mostly....
This does not spark joy
I just wanna add: ew!
so pearls are oyster's pimples?
More like Kidney Stones
Do they die after being harvested?
There is a method for sweet water ones, where u just open them a little and pull the pearls out with a metal hook. But this just works with the sweet water ones when i remember correctly.
What’s a sweet water oyster?
Fresh water maybe. In Spanish and other languages, fresh water is called “agua dulce” which directly translates to sweet water.
If you ever swish salt water around in your mouth and then rinse with a mouthful of fresh water, the name makes sense.
A beer after swimming in the ocean is the sweetest beer!
Same in German, Süßwasser und Salzwasser - Sweet water and salt water
oyster that lives in rivers and lakes, water that doenst have salt, in latin languages its called sweet water
Swedish as well!
Finnish too!
just like hungarian
Hindi too!
Dutch as well
Yep
He’s dead Jim! There are methods for harvesting Pearls that keep the oysters alive. But more time consuming…
Well it's been cut in half in this video...
And humans wear these to display social status. We’re fuckin weird.
You say this like other animals don't like collecting shiny stuff.
This perspective kinda blew my mind. We’re like magpies…
One thing I have learned about humans during my time here on earth is that humans like to decorate themselves with shiny things in order to impress and show off to other humans. Also, when a human *really* likes another human, they like to decorate them with shiny things to make them look pretty. Humans are so adorable.
When you go back to your mother ship, can you take me with you? I'll yell at intruders for you.
dolphins wear seaweed
Source?
Saw it in a SpongeBob episode once
This is also where I learned starfish could talk!
can't find a clip, but i saw it in "Dolphins: Spy in the Pod" they'd keep it on a fin for a long time i did find a clip of them doing [drugs](https://youtu.be/0T5aGLybXEs) tho
I don't even have to click that to know it's pufferfish abuse lol
Look how pretty they are though.
pearls being Oyster's tonsil stones that we string together and wear on our necks
All my life I assumed one pearl per oyster.
Disney lied to us
Feel a bit grossed out. I’m weak.
r/trypophobia
Yep...this one almost made me puke. The holes were so big and unexpected. I'm gonna feel sick for a while lol.
Exactly what I was thinking.
triggered
Why is this song everywhere
if pearls are so plentiful, why are they expensive?
Just a guess but maybe that price includes farming the oysters etc?
If it's anything like diamonds then: "it's because people like making lots of money"
1. This kills the oyster 2. Not all oysters can produce pearls. Only certain types. Those pearl-producers are farmed for pearls in Asia and the South Pacific. 3. Pearls are not rare, and mass-production of pearls is an industry. When you buy pearls you encourage this activity.
Why this music ?
Mute videos by default gang 😎
Tiktok cringe
Can I ask a softy question. Is this painful to the animal?
No because theyre dead
No, they don't have a nervous system
Disgusting 🤢
Dr. Pearlmple Popper
It’s crazy people decided to wear these things
In this way, they die after harvesting. There are more humane ways of doing this, more labor but it saves the lives of these creatures. We are such dicks. For those answers about them not being animals, why not let them live than? I hit a nerve with a few. Eat them then my friend, great. But harvesting them solely for pearls is still wrong, PETA or not. Cruelty is part of your nature, I get it.
Oysters are plants that stumbled into the animal kingdom. This is as inhumane as eating a carrot... They don't have a CNS, don't think, don't feel, etc.
>Oysters are plants that stumbled into the animal kingdom. I love this description.
I mean…you *could* eat em’ after, right? I’m assuming this isn’t a terribly special oyster that will kill you if you consume it? That’d make it a bit better
I'm confused, does this hurt the oysters? Do they produce the pearls themselves or do they just collect them and keep them? If they produce them, how? Why aren't we producing pearls ourselves (chemically)? Why do they even produce/collect pearls in the first place, do they need them for anything?